- The Swedish actor and director Nils Chrisander conquered the German silver screen from 1915, first as an actor, from 1919 as a director too.
- By 1930, he was living at S. Gramercy Place in Los Angeles, California. Later on he moved back to Sweden, where in he lived in a small village in the south of the country.
- In 1919, he co-directed the German silent film Alraune und der Golem with actor and director Paul Wegener.
- As an actor, Chrisander is possibly best recalled for starring as "Erik the Phantom" in the now lost 1916 Ernst Matray-directed German adaptation Das Phantom der Oper, based on Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera opposite Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen. Matray's version is the first film adaptation of Leroux's 1909-1910 serialized novel.
- In 1917, he appeared opposite the popular Polish film actress Pola Negri in her first role in a German production, Nicht lange täuschte mich das Glück.
- In total, he directed three films in Germany, before relocating to the United States where he directed two dramatic films: 1927's Fighting Love, starring Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry B. Walthall for Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, and that same year, The Heart Thief, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Lya De Putti.
- After performing in a film serial for director Karl Gerhardt opposite actress Lil Dagover from 1920 to 1921, Chrisander began his career in Germany as a director.
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